Re: Early Client Server on the AS/400

Jan,

In a message dated 12/27/98 12:01:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
JanAS400@aol.com writes:

> << nd the ShowCase
>   ODBC back then.  I don't remember the exact timing, but the FSIOP had just
>   been renamed to the IPCS  *** what are FSIOP and IPCS?   
>   "black boxes"
>   had just been announced. >>  *** were they called "advanced system"?   was
>  this the "E" series?

FSIOP was "File Server Input-Output Processor", IPCS (the replacement for
FSIOP) is "Integrated PC file Server" (I think ;-)).  Pretty much an Intel
chip-on-a-card that plugs into the AS/400 card cage to provide direct access
to the AS/400 from a PC-based operating system...

Regards!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real." -- Ben J.
Wattenberg
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